ARMSTRONG SAYS SORRY TO ‘VICTIM’ BASSONS

PARIS: Drug cheat Lance Armstrong has met up with one of his former ‘victims’, Christophe Bassons, to apologize for his role in forcing the French cyclist off the 1999 Tour de France. The disgraced US rider, stripped of his seven Tour de France titles and banned for life for serial drug-taking, held face-to-face talks with Bassons in a Paris hotel. Bassons was riding for Festina when the team became embroiled in a doping scandal in 1998.